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Photo: An unexpected delight at the Candelo Village Festival was Frank Yamma, delivering his powerful songs in Pitjantjatjara and English, joined on stage by Azadoota, bringing their funky, Cuban, Middle Eastern influence.

Photo: Bronwyn Douglas, seven, and Brian Douglas-Thompson, 13, caught 7.18 kilograms of cane toads on their property at Hervey Range. But this was a small haul - last year they had three buckets full of toads. "We were in a trailer being towed and we jumped out and got them when we saw them," Brian said. "We go down to the dam, the pigs... we go to our aunty's, my grandad and my grandma's house and there's heaps of toads under lights and [in holes]," Bronwyn added.

Photo: Manager of the Feast of the Senses Festival Kirsty Densmore said more than 8,000 people attended the event this year with many of them soaking up the sun throughout the day. "This is our 13th festival now," she said. "It originated as a celebration of the rare and exotic fruit of the region and has developed into a multicultural festival. Of course the European countries are very well represented, the Indian community is growing, and we're starting to see a lot more people from Asian nations too. It's a real melting pot of cultures."

Photo: Mother and son Carmel and Terry Madden were overjoyed to see his paintings transformed into outfits.
Terry initially began painting five years ago and has not let his intellectual disability stand in the way of tapping into his creative side. "I did not know I had a gift," Terry said.